The overthrow of Madagascar's elected president Marc Ravalomanana on 17 March 2009 is the latest setback in long-term efforts to establish political stability in the Indian Ocean island. These date from as long ago as 1972, when demonstrations... "It wasn’t, I realised after all, that the world had run out of ideas. It was simply that the world had forgotten how good ideas were created in the first place." The world has been... The Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust has published a major report on the UK's Database State. Technology is transforming government, and there is an urgent need to control and understand it. One of the most irritating tropes of New Labour is... Database State was written by Ross Anderson, Ian Brown, Terri Dowty, Philip Inglesant, William Heath and Angela Sasse from the Foundation for Information Policy Research that included some of Britain's foremost experts in information systems... Varun Gandhi's inflammatory, anti-minority speech in Uttar Pradesh last week opened up the debate for a need to bring the words and deeds of all politicians under greater public scrutiny. The Election Commission of India recommended the... When India wraps up its fifteenth general elections in mid May, Dr. Binayak Sen will be completing two years in jail in a cruel inversion of democracy. Held on charges of suspected involvement with Maoist insurgents under the heavy-handed... The week in Bangladesh began dramatically when a fire broke out on the seventeenth floor of Dhaka's Bashundhara City complex on Friday afternoon, killing seven and injuring fifty. The complex itself was severely damaged, with the top six... The victory of Mauricio Funes in El Salvador's presidential election on 15 March 2009 completes the settlement of the armed conflict that devastated the country in the 1980s. The triumph of this candidate of the Frente Farabundo Martí para la... The issue is "The Dalai Lama and Tibet Awareness Day", or Assembly Concurrent Resolution 6, (ACR 6) a resolution sponsored by Assembly Member Sam Blakeslee. The resolution would recognize March 10 as "Dalai Lama and Tibet Awareness... Political forums on the internet are relatively new for the Russian public. They're today's "universal kitchen", where public opinion is "cooked up". Users report that before 1999 such forums were fairly homogenous... The municipal district of Yuntolovo is not famous for its architecture, historic places or other sights. Located in the northwest of St. Petersburg, is has mostly been built up in the late 20th and early 21stcentury.But Petersburgers know the... For the last five years a small Moscow-based NGO, the SOVA Centre for Information and Analysis,has produced an annual report on radical nationalist activity in Russia and the efforts of state and non-state bodies to counteract it. This year...Advertise here Madagascar: sources of turmoil, Stephen Ellis
The Politics of Liberty in the Age of ‘Liquid Democracy’, Gerry Hassan
Gordon Torr, Managing Creative People (1)The database state we're in, Anthony Barnett
Database State, Joseph Rowntree Reform Trust
Democracy-support in a new era, Christopher Hobson Milja Kurki
Gandhi vs. Gandhi as electoral politics heat up, Aaradhana Jhunjhunwala
The good doctor: Binayak Sen and the cost of dissent , Richa Bansal
Fire cripples Dhaka landmark, Oliver Scanlan
El Salvador’s long march, Victor Valle
China Tibet: the Sacramento dimension, Giovanni Vassallo Dechen Tsering John Isom
The Kremlin's virtual squad, Editor expertiza.ru
Protect Yuntolovo! Money v nature in St Petersburg, Alexander Granik
Racist Crime in Russia, Stella Rock
Tuesday, 24 March 2009
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